Orthodox Easter

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Orthodox Easter

2004

Orthodox Church, one of the three major branches of Christianity, which stands in historical continuity with the communities created by the apostles of Jesus in the region of the eastern Mediterranean, and which spread by missionary activity throughout Eastern Europe.


Good Friday

 

 

at a church in Pireas

 

the street procession

 

the canopy

 

returning to the lighted church

 

procession entering the church yard

 

 

the canopy entering the church yard

 

being placed in front of the church door

 

people entering the church under the canopy

 

touching the petals, bending down and entering the church

 

procession in Athens

 

the priest


Midnight before Easter

 

before midnight, the priest reads scripture to the crowd outside of the church

 

at the start of Easter day, the candles are lit

 

Easter light for all


Easter Day

 

red dyed eggs

 

each family roasting the lamb

 

or for many at the restaurant

 

the lamb for the Easter dinner


Athens Athens 2004 Corinth Canal Corfu Crete Antiquities Crete Delphi Edessa Elderhostel Epidaurus Greater Macedonia Homeric Legend Ioannina Ionian Islands Kalambaka Meteora Meteora  2004 Metsovo Mycenae Mycenae 2004 Mystras Nafplion Northern Greece Olympia Orthodox Easter Pella Rhodes Santorini Synagogue on Rhodes Thessaloniki

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